Simplified Patient Flow Fostered with Philips Systems
Philips Healthcare announced that their array of tools for clinical information solutions have been modified to streamline workflow, improve the ability to meet needs for information, and support high quality patient care. The intent of this modification is to support synchronization of all the Philips’s systems, allowing infrastructure and integration. Philips Healthcare issued a press release describing the reformulation of these systems.
Tools modified include their enterprise and clinical management systems, anaethesia information, patient monitoring, cardiology information systems, and women’s health information. More information about the functionalities of each of those systems was detailed on the Philips’s site. Integration of all these patient monitoring systems supports patient care and leverages recent acquisitions by Philips. Those relevant acquisitions include VISICU, Emergin, and XIMIS.
Philips notes that this redesign was completed in order to meet the needs of the changing healthcare environment. In the past, clinicians reacted to data available from systems that display vitals signs and other clinical information. The newer model of care, alternatively, is to use information for predictive and preventative clinical decision support.
Systems that provide value for customers with this altered paradigm must integrate with other technology tools utilized, such as electronic health records and certainly the entire IT infrastructure utilized across the healthcare system. The Philips system is able to support these needs.
March 19, 2008 Related topics: Wireless, Standards, IT & software